Make plans now to join us in Anaheim > 14 – 19 October 2018

Join us in Anaheim
14 – 19 October 2018

Geoscientists from more than 70 countries across the globe will connect in Anaheim to discuss the common threads of geophysics shared among numerous disciplines, including unconventionals, high-performance computing, near surface, seismicity, geohazards, deep water, Circum-Pacific, and more.

Submit your abstract to SEG Anaheim 2018

The Call for Abstracts deadline is 1 April 5:00 PM Central Daylight Time.

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A Letter from the SEG Anaheim 2018 Chairs

To All SEG Exhibitors,

Thank you for exhibiting at the SEG Houston 2017 Annual Meeting. Your support of SEG and participation in the Annual Meeting is a key element in the Society’s goal of advancing applied geophysics and, specifically, increasing the marketplace for exchange of technical knowledge and products.

We are excited about the SEG Anaheim 2018 Annual Meeting and want to ensure you maximize the value from your participation. To achieve this goal, the Anaheim Steering Committee members have been visiting with exhibitors within their professional network and participated in the Exhibitor Roundtable last April in Anaheim, California. Despite our participation in both activities, the committee has only been able to visit with a small percentage of exhibitors. We truly want your thoughts on the exhibition and Annual Meeting, so you are well-represented in our planning process between now and the start of the Anaheim meeting. Please take the time now to call or email one of us at the contact points below, or during the SEG Houston 2017 Annual Meeting where one or more of us will be available during move-in, move-out, rebooking appointments, or walking the exhibit floor.

To help you appreciate the full value of exhibiting at the Annual Meeting in Anaheim and what will make this meeting a truly unique and must-attend event for SEG members worldwide, we would like to share some of the initiatives we want to implement:

Expand meeting attendance by providing a broad, diverse technical program with high-quality presentations.
This includes an outreach effort to include presentations on such topics as:

Near-surface Geophysics including a joint-workshop with the AGU Near-Surface Section and special near-surface technical sessions

Passive Seismology including a passive seismology workshop and technical sessions

Exhibition

Expanding and rebranding the HPC Pavilion to include Big Data and associated technologies

Special outreach to Big Data and near-surface companies to participate in the exhibition

Special sessions within the main technical program and technical program halls for commercial presentations by exhibitors

General Meeting

Focus on attracting members and companies from the Pacific Rim region to attend and participate in the Annual Meeting

Again, we would like to thank you for your participation in the SEG International Exposition and 87th Annual Meeting in Houston. We look forward to working with you on creating the best value for your participation at the SEG International Exposition and 88th Annual Meeting in Anaheim.

Sincerely,

Dan Hollis
General Chairman

Bill Bartling
Exhibits Co-Chairman

Important Dates

Call for Abstracts

Opens 1 February 2018

Closes 1 April 2018

Exhibitor Housing

Opens 13 March 2018

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Join Us in Anaheim!

Hi, I’m Dan Hollis, I’m the General Chairman for the 2018 SEG Meeting in Anaheim, and I look forward to seeing you next year in California, home to a wide variety of interesting locations that geophysicists will find fascinating, like these pump jacks conveniently located next to a Starbucks, right here in Signal Hill in Long Beach.

Most of the major oil fields in the Los Angeles/Anaheim area are along major earthquake faults and usually have a surface expression. Signal Hill is caused by a bend in the Newport-Inglewood Fault that causes the anticline that traps oil to make the Long Beach Oil Field.

The field, discovered in 1921, is one of the many prolific fields along the Newport-Inglewood Fault, a major fault system running through the Los Angeles Basin. This field has the distinction of the highest recovery of oil per producing acre of any field in the world. Its recovery rate is even more impressive when you consider the obstacles both above and below ground.

California oil producers have long faced challenges of making exploration and production compatible with urban life. When the first oil boom began in the Los Angeles basin in the 1890s, cities quickly arose alongside oil discovery and development. Over the decades, exploration and production became increasingly more difficult as urban populations grew denser and community standards became more stringent.

The Los Angeles Basin is the richest basin in the world in terms of hydrocarbons per volume of sedimentary fill – making it a very unique oil province. It contains a tremendous amount of oil, but the combination of cultural, logistics, and geological obstacles make economical recovery a challenge.

The Annual Meeting in Anaheim will provide you with many opportunities to learn about cutting edge solutions to some of the most difficult challenges that geophysicists face. Thousands of geoscience professionals from all over the globe will come together in Anaheim to explore a wide variety of topics, including big data, deep water exploration, geohazards, high-performance computing, induced seismicity, machine learning, near surface, oil and gas, seismicity, unconventionals, and more.

The SEG Annual Meeting in Anaheim will be an especially unique time for us to come together as one community of geophysicists in one of the world’s most geophysically-diverse and fascinating locations. Join me as we increase our knowledge and skills that allow us to continue making a real difference in the daily lives of all people across the globe. See you there.